As the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers move closer to indicting former guerrillas, strict security measures have been imposed in an attempt to protect witnesses from threats and prevent cases from collapsing.

The trial of Bosnian Serb paramilitaries for killing 20 passengers abducted from a train in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993 is due to start in Belgrade, with the indictment revealing more about how the victims were seized and executed.

Ankara’s determination to exert greater control over the institution representing Albania’s Muslim community is causing disquiet – with some within the rank calling for robust resistance to outside interference.

The European Parliament has urged Bosnia and Herzegovina to adopt legislation to tackle the issue of property and land that was seized from Jews and others during World War II and by the post-war Yugoslav regime and not returned.

A year after Bosnia and Herzegovina’s revised draft strategy for war crimes processing was completed, it has not even been considered by the Council of Ministers, raising questions about when the country will finish prosecuting all its remaining cases.

Two new commissions set up by Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity to examine wartime crimes in Srebrenica and Sarajevo have been accused of seeking to distort the truth to whitewash Serbs’ role in atrocities.

Albanians mostly remember Leka Zogu for his eccentric bid to grab a non-existent throne in the 1990s; few are aware of his strange, privileged life, first in Franco’s Spain and then in white-run South Africa.